Does My Child Have an Expressive Language Disorder? What is an Expressive Language Disorder? Children begin to learn and express themselves as soon as they are born. Their ability to convey their wants, needs and thoughts through words, improves as they grow older. Some toddlers and young children miss their language milestones […]
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Autism Therapy At Home: Ideas from a Speech Therapist You know your child best. So you know that even if they have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), or have red flags for ASD, they are completely unique and cannot be compared to another child with the same diagnosis. They will have
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For New Years: Top 5 Ways to Help Your Child Improve Communication Skills New Years is an excellent opportunity to encourage your children to focus on developing healthy habits. That can include working on ways to improve communication skills with your child. As a parent, you can incorporate these tips into your everyday
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My Name is Kate: Great Therapy Books for Kids Are you looking for a book to add to your list of therapy books for kids? Here’s one to add. This book tells the story of Kate, a little girl who has Childhood Apraxia of Speech. The disorder makes it hard for her to say
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Speech Articulation Issues in Children and How to Help Them Speech articulation issues in children are characterized by a difficulty making the sounds in words properly when talking. There are developmental norms for when a child is supposed to master each speech sound, and every language has its own norms. When a speech
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Is Your 2 Year Old Not Talking But Babbling? Is your 2 year old not talking but babbling? At Therapy Works Together, We receive a lot of questions from parents who want to know if their child needs to see a speech-language pathologist. If a 2 year old is not yet talking, it
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How to Stop Stuttering: 3 Tips to Reduce and Manage Stuttering Stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the normal flow of speech. A child or an adult who stutters repeats or prolongs sounds, syllables, or words. Many people want to know how to stop stuttering. Treatment with speech therapy depends on symptoms, age,
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What Do Parents Need to Know About a Phonological Processing Disorder? A phonological processing disorder impairs a child’s ability to produce sounds and/or is an impairment of the mental representation of spoken sounds. A phonological processing disorder, which is in the family of speech sound disorders, is sometimes mistaken as an articulation disorder,
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Reading Skills & Reading Comprehension Therapy: What Parents Need to Know About Reading Skills Reading is a skill that must be taught explicitly to a child, unlike speech and language skills, which are mastered without explicit instruction by an adult. When a child is learning to read it necessitates a number of skills,
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7 Ideas For How to Help a Child with Speech Delay As speech therapists, we cannot minimize the importance of speech therapy early in a child’s life if delays are observed. What we’ve observed to be even more essential is parental involvement in speech therapy and taking learned strategies from speech therapy to
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